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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has apprehended one Samuel Cosmos Akpan, a student of the University of Uyo who allegedly stabbed a fellow student, one Ubong Pelen Solomon to death. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, SP Odiko Macdon who disclosed this in a press statement on Monday, said the corpse of the victim ... Read more

AWKA – The Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Professor Charles Okechukwu Esimone has called on departments and research units in the university to key into his vision for the University to rank among the best in Nigeria, best ten in Africa and among the top 200 in the world. Esimone said he purposely articulated ... Read more

UYO – Akwa Ibom State government has vowed that its current focus in the education sector would not be misplaced till the sector is fully transformed. Recall that the state government, at the Executive Council meeting earlier in the year had declared a state of emergency in the education sector. Governor Udom Emmanuel, while making ... Read more

The Chartered Institute of Educational Practitioners UK (CIEPUK) says it has concluded arrangements to host the Mr Miss CIEPUK 2021 Educational Contest in Abuja. Prof. Marcel Ezenwoye, the President, CIEPUK Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday that the upcoming contest, scheduled to hold on Aug. 26, was aimed at ... Read more

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has inducted 900 graduates of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze in Anambra State into the teaching profession. The inductees were among the successful candidates that sat for the 2021 Professional Qualifying Examination conducted by TRCN, which was held at the college, as ... Read more

Ogun State Government has spoken of plans to employ at least 5,000 teachers for its public primary and secondary schools across the state. Chairman, Ogun State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Olalekan Ifede said that the teachers must be graduates with educational backgrounds so as to impart the right and relevant knowledge in modern ... Read more

In addition to the offer of scholarship last month to 50 Nigerian students to study medicine in Venezuela, To enhance the education of indigent students, the Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation, has offered scholarships to another batch of 650 students to pursue their university education in different courses of studies in part of the country. ... Read more

The National YouthS Service Corps( NYSC) schemehas condemned in its entirety attacks on some corps members serving in Lagos State by miscreants while carrying out their national duties. The corps members were allegedly attacked by the hoodlums at Ikeja under Bridge during a sensitisation and enlightenment campaigns for the NYSC National ... Read more

The Benue State government yesterday offered scholarship to a four year old boy, Master Eje Moses Alia Eloneje who was reportedly kidnapped but regained freedom, from nursery school to university level. Master Eloneje, an Igede boy, New Telegraph gathered was abducted during the brawl between the Bonta people of Konshisha and their Okpute ... Read more

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier- General Shuaibu Ibrahim, yesterday said he was strongly convinced that the Nigeria’s education and health sectors would collapse if the scheme is scrapped. He then called on those calling for the scrapping of the NYSC to have a rethink and rather see how they ... Read more